Finishing Nearly A Month At Sea

One Modern, a 990 foot by 142 foot container ship sailing under the flag of Marshall Islands, pulls into the port of Mobile the afternoon of DEC 20th 2025. With a draught of 40 feet, the ship moves at 12 mph while finishing a voyage that began NOV 22nd from Busan New Port, Korea. According to ship manifests, One Modern carries more than 90 tons of polyester staple fiber and around 42 tons of coated paper plus radial tires for trucks and buses, parts for passenger cars, transformer parts, angle ring pipe flanges and lighting equipment. Nearly all of the cargo was loaded in South Korea. Photo shot from Orange St pier in Fairhope, about 6.5 miles away…